Milk Money

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Milk Money

PG-13

1994

1h 48m

Romance

Comedy

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Three young boys pool their money and pay V (Melanie Griffith), a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer (Malcolm McDowell) is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom (Ed Harris), a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

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Critics Consensus

Ill-conceived and cheap when it comes to cleverness, Milk Money is more than a few cents short of a good time.

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Anna Maria Dell'oso

Sydney Morning Herald

An infantile and sad sex-comedy that should go straight to video release.

Mar 1, 2024

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Dolores Barclay

Associated Press

A silly, offensive movie.

Oct 22, 2018

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Ian Nathan

Empire Magazine

What results is, at best, only a sparingly funny series of mistaken identities and some really distasteful hooker gags delivered by the shocked townsfolk.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 16, 2014

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

It's difficult to dislike the fun-loving sexuality and adventure, even if it runs on about half-an-hour too long and resolves the predicaments too easily.

Rated: 6/10

Sep 14, 2020

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Gena Radcliffe

The Spool

It exists largely so the film could be sold as a spicy romantic comedy that you could still show to your grandmother, if your grandmother had no taste.

Jan 20, 2020

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

A deeply strange little movie...

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 7, 2020

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Steve D

The script is so bad that no talent in the world could save it.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Cyrus K

That fact that this vile thing tried to be a heartwarming family movie just hurts me.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/01/23

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Audience Member

The 2 and a half stars is for the nostalgia the film brings to me. I saw this film with my family when I was a little kid and really liked it. For some reason it stuck with me, maybe because I was the kid's age. All of the stars of the film are very charming, and the film has heart. But it also is very problematic now, and very much a product of it's time. The characters are all lovable, but things like having a woman strip for a few 11 year old boys is not a very comfortable thing to witness now. And the sex worker judgements from other characters, while maybe part of the movie's message not to judge, seems very outdated. Also the assumptions that if she is showing cleavage then she must be a sex worker. Overall, if I'm being honest outside of nostalgia, the performances are the only thing keeping this from being a completely problematic disaster. Especially Melanie Griffith's great performance.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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If the nudity was much more gratuitous and the language more foul it would be a pretty modern preteen comedy! It's really not all that risque by today's standards. The implied violence against women would be more problematic than the sexual content but it's more mild than what you'd see on NBC or CBS in primetime. It's pretty tonally uneven but it's actually pretty damn funny in parts, got more laughs than most movies, 4 stars why not

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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by far this is one of the most funny movies from the 90s the coming of age of these boys along with Melanie Griffith pair together perfectly if you have not seen this you must and be prepared to laugh its a great pick me up make me laugh movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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Audience Member

Holy tenderloins and knockers Batman! These guys actually got away with making this revolting script into an actual movie! How could we have never stopped this thing from getting greenlite!? My sentiments exactly boy wonder! We have here the most disgusting, loathsome, piece of cinematic sodomy which we have ever set our eyes upon! Whoever these people were, let's hope that

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Richard Benjamin

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Melanie Griffith

V

Ed Harris

Tom Wheeler

Michael Patrick Carter

Frank Wheeler

Malcolm McDowell

Waltzer

Anne Heche

Betty

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Synopsis

Three young boys pool their money and pay V (Melanie Griffith), a kindhearted prostitute, to strip for them. Afterward, she drives them home to the suburbs -- but then her car breaks down. It's just as well, though, because a mobster named Waltzer (Malcolm McDowell) is after her, and V realizes the suburbs are the perfect place to hide. But things get a lot more complicated when V falls in love with Tom (Ed Harris), a single father who is unaware of her real profession.

Director: Richard Benjamin
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall
Screenwriter: John Mattson
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Kennedy/Marshall
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $17.0M
Runtime: 1h 48m
Sound Mix: Stereo, Surround

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